Hair-pin.



No. 708,959. Patented Sept. 9, I902..

N. HARRISON.

'HAlR PIN.

(Application filed. July 11, 1901.)

(No Model.)

INVENTPR BYY UNITED STATES NENVTON HARRISON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,ASSIGNOR OF ONE-I IALF TO WILLIAM HENRY LAIRD, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

HAIR-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 708,959, datedSeptember 9, 1902.

Application filed July 11. 1901.

i0 @511 whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, NEWTON HARRISON, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of New York, in the borough of Manhattan and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Pins, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to hair-pins, the ob ject being to provide a pinwhich will retain its position in the hair.

' My improved hair-pin consists of a fork the arms of which are benttoward each other to form a pair of jaws, which normally are held incontact by the natural spring of the arms and which when in use act as aclamp upon that portion of the hair confined between the jaws.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows my improved hair-pin. Fig.2 shows cross-sections of two pins taken on line 00 m of Fig. 1, showingdifferent shapes of wire.

The two legs or arms of the pin are indicated by ct and a. Each of themis provided with an inwardly-bent portion a These parts are locatedopposite each other and are normally held in contact by the naturalspring provided for the pin at the bend b. The two inwardly-bentportions therefore form apair of clamping-jaws which will actually gripany portion of the hair located between them. The wire of which thehair-pins are made ingerial No. 67,829. (No model.)

stead of being round may be square or prismatic in cross-section, sothat the contacting surfaces of the gripping-jaws will be increased, andthus take a stronger hold upon the hair.

It will be observed that the pin will not only hold itself in place byits grip upon the hair, but that portion of the hair which is confinedby the closed loop between the jaws and the bend b will preventdisplacement of the pin.

1 am aware that corrugated hair-pins have been used and that pins havebeen formed with inwardly-bent portions; but so far as. known to me suchinwardly-bent portions have never been brought together to formelongated clamping-jaws.

My invention obviously includes a pin in which one arm only of the forkis provided with the bent jaw, in which case the single jaw would bearagainst the other straight arm.

. Having described my invention, I claim- A hair-pin consisting of twoarms tending to approach each other, said arms being in elongatedcontact throughout a portion of their length, whereby one or more hairswill always be clamped and the pin prevented from falling, substantiallyas described.

In witness whereof I subscribe my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

NEWTON HARRISON.

Witnesses:

WALDO M. CHAPIN, FRANK S. OBER.

